Day 3 of the Writing Jam, with the prompt of "It was a dark and stormy night…" I'm super proud of what I managed to create — it was a couple of hours from conception to finished draft. It also has sentimental value to me, as I shall explain.

When I was a very little kid, my granddad would tell me a story that goes as follows:

It was a dark and stormy night, and three robbers sat in a cave. One said to another, "tell us a tale", and so the tale began…

After which he would repeat himself. He put on a scary voice, made it really dramatic, and I loved hearing it every time. After a little bit of digging it turned out that other people have heard variations on the same story, and that it's one of those things that still exists mainly in the oral tradition — accounts of it on the internet are few and far between. I'm happy that I've managed to immortalise it here, at least to some extent.